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    • Medical journals unite in call to eliminate nuclear weapons.

    Publication Type: Academic Journal

    Source(s): BMJ (Clinical research ed.) [BMJ] 2023 Aug 02; Vol. 382, pp. p1786. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 02.

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    Nuclear bomb and public health.

    Publication Type: Academic Journal

    Source(s): Journal of public health policy [J Public Health Policy] 2023 Sep; Vol. 44 (3), pp. 348-359. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 14.

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    Abstract: Since the nuclear bomb attack against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the world has advanced in nuclear technology. Today, a nuclear bomb could target a large-scale attack, at a longer range, and with much greater destructive force. People are increasi...

    What are the roles for health professionals in addressing the rising threat of the use of nuclear weapons? With particular reference to the activities of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War 1951-1963.

    Publication Type: Academic Journal

    Source(s): Medicine, conflict, and survival [Med Confl Surviv] 2023 Sep; Vol. 39 (3), pp. 291-299. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 11.

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    We need irreversible elimination of all stockpiles of nuclear weapons.

    Publication Type: Editorial & Opinion

    Source(s): BMJ (Clinical research ed.) [BMJ] 2023 Sep 29; Vol. 382, pp. 2242. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 29.

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    Abstract: Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared.

    Implications of "flash" radiotherapy for biodosimetry.

    Publication Type: Academic Journal

    Source(s): Radiation protection dosimetry [Radiat Prot Dosimetry] 2023 Sep 18; Vol. 199 (14), pp. 1450-1459.

    Abstract: Extremely high dose rate radiation delivery (FLASH) for cancer treatment has been shown to produce less damage to normal tissues while having the same radiotoxic effect on tumor tissue (referred to as the FLASH effect). Research on the FLASH effect has...

    Change the mindset on nuclear weapons: health experts use their professions to prevent global health threats.

    Publication Type: Academic Journal

    Source(s): Medicine, conflict, and survival [Med Confl Surviv] 2023 Sep; Vol. 39 (3), pp. 300-307. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 03.

    Strontium-90 in Baby Teeth as a Basis for Estimating U.S. Cancer Deaths From Nuclear Weapons Fallout.

    Publication Type: Academic Journal

    Source(s): International journal of social determinants of health and health services [Int J Soc Determinants Health Health Serv] 2023 Jul; Vol. 53 (3), pp. 374-384. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 31.

    Abstract: Nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere during the 1950s and 1960s deposited fallout throughout the world, exposing all humans to food and water before the Limited Test Ban Treaty ended large-scale tests. The largest effort to measure in vivo fallout...

    The 239 Pu nuclear fallout as recorded in an Antarctic ice core drilled at Dome C (East Antarctica).

    Publication Type: Academic Journal

    Source(s): Chemosphere [Chemosphere] 2023 Jul; Vol. 329, pp. 138674. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 11.

    Abstract: Starting from 1952 C.E. more than 540 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests (NWT) were conducted in different locations of the Earth. This lead to the injection of about 2.8 t of 239 Pu in the environment, roughly corresponding to a total 239 Pu radioactiv...

    A Descriptive Analysis of the Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons by Violent Non-State Actors and the Modern-Day Environment of Threat.

    Publication Type: Academic Journal

    Source(s): Prehospital and disaster medicine [Prehosp Disaster Med] 2023 Jun; Vol. 38 (3), pp. 395-400. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 27.

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    Abstract: Introduction: The use of chemical, biological, radiation, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons is not new, and though rare, it is an issue of concern around the world due to their ability to cause large-scale mass-casualty events and their potential threat to gl...

    Dirty bomb source term characterization and downwind dispersion: Review of experimental evidence.

    Publication Type: Academic Journal

    Source(s): Journal of environmental radioactivity [J Environ Radioact] 2023 Jul; Vol. 263, pp. 107166. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 12.

    Abstract: Dirty bombs are considered one of the easiest forms of radiological terrorism, a form of terrorism based on the deliberate use of radiological material to cause adverse effects in a target population. One U.S. Government official has even described a d...

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